New York | Crazy Road Trip | Hilary Mercer Photography

When Neil and I started planning out trip he mentioned his idea of the trip and I thought he was crazy and laughed. He imagined going to NYC for one day. There is NO WAY! I could do NYC in one day so we decided to skip it completely... except for the 2 hour long traffic we got stuck in going through it. Our main objective for NY was Niagara Falls. Its just one of those places everyone should go. It was absolutely gorgeous. My only regret was forgetting our passports so we couldn't stay in Canada and say we had been there too. :( Our hotel was probably the best deal we got for the whole trip too. We stayed at the Holiday Inn which was like.. REALLY incredibly close to the falls for less than $100 a night. Niagara was Neil's favorite destination, mine too. Mainly for the photos though. Its a pretty place!

This was one of the first photos I took when we got there. I was super excited to see the rainbow so bright.. who knew it REALLY wasn't that bright we saw a lot brighter later on.

While we were waiting on the hoards of people to go away and the sun we went around a looked for some geocaches and some mini waterfalls but instead found these...

Here is the water before the big falls,

Tourist!

Tummies!

As we were walking back to the main street for some grub I saw a sign saying something about a night show. That was the only place they advertised it. Im so glad I was looking around at signs or I would have missed this gorgeous show.

I loved that green mist!

I like to call this one "Golden Showers"
We went through the colors once and decided to call it a night. It was a long day for us and we did a lot of walking around.

At night they light upstream too. Beautiful!

There were a ton of tourist'y asian folks around and they were sporting the peace signs and I couldnt not do it too.

I love this for some reason. I love their reactions.

See how crazy bright these are! Crazy!

This is what you get when you don't have a tripod but want a family photo at the falls. At the moment the camera snapped we and Cameron the camera were getting soaked! Which.. is why my eyes are closed and we look like complete goofballs.